Friday, October 23, 2015

James Earl Ray Martin Luther King Assassin Working for KGB Communists?

April 4, 1968 Martin Luther King was killed by a single rifle bullet on , while standing on the second-floor balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee. Shortly after the shot was fired, witnesses saw a man believed to be James Earl Ray fleeing from a rooming house across the street from the Lorraine Motel. Ray had been renting a room in the house at the time. A package was dumped close to the site that included a rifle and a binocular, both found with Ray's fingerprints. He supposedly acted alone, but seemed to get a lot of mysterious help, as if he were some kind of intelligence agency operative. He left lots of clues that he was some kind of a right wing racist, he supported segregationist George Wallace and tried to escape to racist segregationist Rhodesia. In 2015 Dylan Roof attacked a predominantly black Christian church and killed its pastor, he had posted pictures to tell the world he admired the confederacy and its legacy of southern US racism and Rhodesia.

Alternative Theory: Was it an attack by an American enemy who wanted to replace King's leadership with more radical people favored by communists?

RFK Sirhan Sirhan was communist Palestinian terrorist: MEMORANDUM Sirhan’s car parked at W.E.B. DuBois Clubs meetings, Attorney General of the United States branded as under direction of communists, openly call for revolution and the violent overthrow of the American government and the destruction of capitalism. The postman said he had delivered to Sirhan pro-communist and anti-American mail from Jordan. Like Oswald both assassins were pro-Castro and anti-Americans, cold blooded murderers and political assassins. Pro-communists targeted RFK: Ralph Schoenman, who made frequent trips to Hanoi "If you want to hang Eichmann I would say that Bobby Kennedy should be the next one" "Who brought poison chemist, and toxic gases, and concentration camps, and bacteriological weapons to Viet Nam? The Kennedy brothers." since May 18th 1967, Robert Kennedy’s name has been on the list of Americans targeted for assassination by communists Radical William Ayers' forgotten communist manifesto: Prairie Fire hailed Sirhan Sirhan Legacy of Secrecy: The Long Shadow of the JFK Assassination [aliant attempt to construct a Grand Unified Field Theory of the JFK/MLK/RFK assassinations] Mayor Yorty himself who would publicly proclaim Sirhan a communist soon after Bobby's murder, saying that Sirhan “was a member of numerous communist organizations... Sirhan's notebook contained heavy doses of pro-communit revolutionary zeal and anti-Americanism, as if Sirhan were a member of the communist Party or interested in community ideology. But he wasn't [or was he?] June 4, 1968 Sirhan had thrown away an envelope "RFK must be disposed of like his brother" Robert F. Kennedy Assassination: The FBI Files google books Possible Communist Influence of Sirhan Special Counsel Kranz has found absolutely no evidence to indicate that there was any Communist influence, ...

Criminal history: convicted of his first crime, a burglary in California, in 1949. In 1952 he served two years for armed robbery of a taxi driver in Illinois. In 1955, he was convicted of mail fraud after stealing money orders in Hannibal, Missouri, and then forging them to take a trip to Florida. He served three years at Leavenworth Federal Penitentiary. In 1959 he was caught stealing $120 (equivalent to $1,000 in 2015) in an armed robbery of a St. Louis Kroger store.[6] Ray was sentenced to twenty years in prison for repeated offenses.

Escape: He escaped from the Missouri State Penitentiary in 1967 by hiding in a truck transporting bread from the prison bakery.[7]

Gun: sniper grade as if he had military trainining: Remington Model 760 Gamemaster .30-06-caliber rifle and a box of 20 cartridges from the Aeromarine Supply Company. He also bought a Redfield 2x-7x scope, which he had mounted to the rifle.

KGB had a plan to eliminate King and replace him with communist backed radicals

Mark Lane's JFK book was funded (without his knowledge) by the KGB, which he denied. He continued to advocate for murderers who smell like communist agents.

Mexico: then drove to Mexico, stopping in Acapulco before settling down in Puerto Vallarta on October 19, 1967.[8] While in Mexico, Ray, using the alias Eric Starvo Galt, attempted to establish himself as a pornography director. Using mail-ordered equipment, he filmed and photographed local prostitutes. Frustrated with his results and jilted by the prostitute he had formed a relationship with, Ray left Mexico around November 16, 1967.[9]

Military experience: He joined the US Army at the close of World War II and served in Germany.

Rhodesia: considered emigrating to Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), where a white minority regime had unilaterally assumed independence from the United Kingdom in 1965. It would be his intended destination after King's assassination.

KGB’s secret war against Martin Luther King Jr.

"Longevity has its place. But I'm not concerned about that now. I just want to do God's will. And He's allowed me to go up to the mountain. And I've looked over. And I've seen the promised land. I may not get there with you. But I want you to know tonight, that we, as a people will get to the promised land." - Martin Luther King Jr. April 3, 1968 Memphis, Tennessee

“In August 1967 the Centre approved an operational plan by the deputy head of Service A, Yuri Modin, former controller of the Magnificent Five, to discredit King and his chief lieutenants by placing articles in the African press, which could then be reprinted in American newspapers, portraying King as an “Uncle Tom” who was secretly receiving government subsidies to tame the civil rights movement and prevent it threatening the Johnson administration. While leading freedom marches under the admiring glare of worldwide television, King was allegedly in close touch with the President. 83 The same operational plan also contained a series of active measures designed to discredit US policy “on the negro.” The Centre authorized Modin:

To organize, through the use of KGB residency resources in the US, the publication and distribution of brochures, pamphlets, leaflets and appeals denouncing the policy of the Johnson administration on the Negro question and exposing the brutal terrorist methods being used by the government to suppress the Negro rights movement.

To arrange, via available agent resources, for leading figures in the legal profession to make public statements discrediting the policy of the Johnson administration on the Negro question.

To forge and distribute through illegal channels a document showing that the John Birch Society, in conjunction with the Minuteman organization, is developing a plan for the physical elimination of leading figures in the Negro movement in the US. 84

Service A sought to exploit the violent images of the long, hot summers which began in August 1965 which race riots in Watts, the black Los Angeles ghetto, which resulted in thirty-six deaths, left 1,0332 injured and caused damage estimated at over 40 million dollars. The Centre seems to have hoped that as violence intensified King would be swept aside by black radicals such as Stokeley Carmichael, who told a meeting of Third World revolutionaries in Cuba in the summer of 1967, “We have a common enemy. Our struggle is to overthrow this system . . . We are moving into open guerilla warfare in the United States.” Traveling on to North Vietnam, Carmichael declared in Hanoi, “We are not reformists…We are revolutionaries. We want to change the American system.”85

King’s assassination on April 4, 1968 was quickly followed by the violence and rioting which the KGB had earlier blamed King for trying to prevent. Within a week riots erupted in over a hundred cities, forty-six people had been killed, 3,500 injured and 20,000 arrested. To “Deke” DeLoach, it seemed that, “The nation was teetering on the brink of anarchy.”86 Henceforth, instead of dismissing King as an Uncle Tom, Service A portrayed him as a martyr of the black liberation movement and spread conspiracy theories alleging that his murder had been planned by white racists with the connivance of the authorities. 87

James Earl Ray (March 10, 1928 – April 23, 1998) was an American convicted of the assassination of activist Martin Luther King, Jr. Ray was convicted on March 10, 1969, after entering a guilty plea to forgo a jury trial. Had he been found guilty by jury trial, he would have been eligible for the death penalty.[3] He was sentenced to 99 years in prison. He later recanted his confession and tried unsuccessfully to gain access to a retrial. In 1998, Ray died in prison of complications due to chronic hepatitis C infection.

James Earl Ray was born to a poor family in Alton, Illinois, the son of Lucille (Maher) and George Ellis Ray. He had Welsh, Australian, and Irish ancestry, and was raised Catholic.[4] He left school at age 15. In February 1935 Ray's father, known by the nickname Speedy, passed a bad check in Alton, Illinois and pulled James out of first grade then moved to Ewing, Missouri where the family had to change their name to Raynes to avoid law enforcement.[5] He joined the US Army at the close of World War II and served in Germany.
Initial convictions and first escape from prison[edit]

Following his escape, Ray stayed on the move throughout the United States and Canada, going first to St. Louis and then on to Chicago, Toronto, Montreal, and Birmingham. When he got to Alabama, Ray stayed long enough to buy a 1966 Ford Mustang and get an Alabama driver's license. He then drove to Mexico, stopping in Acapulco before settling down in Puerto Vallarta on October 19, 1967.[8] While in Mexico, Ray, using the alias Eric Starvo Galt, attempted to establish himself as a pornography director. Using mail-ordered equipment, he filmed and photographed local prostitutes. Frustrated with his results and jilted by the prostitute he had formed a relationship with, Ray left Mexico around November 16, 1967.[9]

Ray returned to the United States, arriving in Los Angeles on November 19, 1967. While in L.A., Ray attended a local bartending school and took dance lessons.[10] His chief interest, however, was the George Wallacepresidential campaign. Ray harbored a strong prejudice against African Americans and was quickly drawn to Wallace's segregationist platform. He spent much of his time in Los Angeles volunteering at the Wallace campaign headquarters in North Hollywood.[11] He also considered emigrating to Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), where a white minority regime had unilaterally assumed independence from the United Kingdom in 1965.[12] The notion of residing in Rhodesia continued appealing to Ray for several years afterward, and would be his intended destination after King's assassination.[13]
Activity in early 1968[edit]

On March 5, 1968, Ray underwent a facial reconstruction (rhinoplasty), performed by Dr. Russell Hadley.[14] On March 18, 1968, Ray left Los Angeles and began a cross-country drive toAtlanta, Georgia.[15]

Arriving in Atlanta on March 24, 1968, Ray checked into a rooming house.[16] He eventually bought a map of the city. FBI agents later found this map when they searched the room in which he was staying in Atlanta. On the map, the locations of the church and residence of Martin Luther King Jr. were circled.[17]

Ray was soon on the road again, and drove his Mustang to Birmingham, Alabama. There, on March 30, 1968, he bought a RemingtonModel 760 Gamemaster .30-06-caliber rifle and a box of 20 cartridges from the Aeromarine Supply Company. He also bought a Redfield 2x-7x scope, which he had mounted to the rifle.[18] He told the store clerks that he was going on a hunting trip with his brother. Ray had continued using the Galt alias after his stint in Mexico, but when he made this purchase, he gave his name as Harvey Lowmeyer.[19]

Martin Luther King was killed by a single rifle bullet on April 4, 1968, while standing on the second-floor balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee. Shortly after the shot was fired, witnesses saw a man believed to be James Earl Ray fleeing from a rooming house across the street from the Lorraine Motel. Ray had been renting a room in the house at the time. A package was dumped close to the site that included a rifle and a binocular, both found with Ray's fingerprints.
Capture and trial[edit]

On the day of the assassination, Ray fled north by car to Toronto, Ontario, where he hid out for over a month and acquired a Canadian passport under the false name of Ramon George Sneyd.[21] On June 8, 1968, a little more than two months after King's death, Ray was captured at London's Heathrow Airportwhile trying to leave the United Kingdom on the false Canadian passport. At check-in, the ticket agent noticed the name on his passport—Sneyd—was on a Royal Canadian Mounted Police watchlist.[22] At the airport, officials noticed that Ray carried another passport under a second name. The UK quickly extradited Ray to Tennessee, where he was charged with King's murder. He confessed to the crime on March 10, 1969, his 41st birthday,[23] and after pleading guilty was sentenced to 99 years in prison.[24]
Denial of confession[edit]

Three days later, he recanted his confession. Ray had entered a guilty plea on the advice of his attorney, Percy Foreman, in order to avoid a potential trial conviction, which could have led to a sentence of death. The method of execution in Tennessee at the time was electrocution.

Ray fired Foreman as his attorney, and derisively called him "Percy Fourflusher" thereafter.[citation needed] Ray began claiming that a man he had met in Montreal back in 1967, who used the alias "Raul," had been deeply involved. Instead he asserted that he did not "personally shoot Dr. King," but may have been "partially responsible without knowing it," hinting at aconspiracy. Ray told this version of King's assassination and his own flight in the two months afterwards to William Bradford Huie. Huie investigated this story and discovered Ray lied about some details. Ray told Huie he purposefully left the rifle with his fingerprints on it in plain sight because he wanted to become a famous criminal. Ray was convinced he was so smart that he would not be caught.[3] He believed Governor of Alabama George Wallace would soon be elected President, and Ray would only be confined for a short time.[3] Ray spent the remainder of his life unsuccessfully attempting to withdraw his guilty plea and secure a trial.
Second escape from prison[edit]

Ray had hired Jack Kershaw as his attorney, who promoted Ray's claim that he was not responsible for the shooting, which was said to have been the result of a conspiracy of the otherwise unidentified man named "Raul." Kershaw and his client met with representatives of the United States House Select Committee on Assassinations and convinced the comun ballistics tests—which ultimately proved inconclusive—that they felt would show that Ray had not fired the fatal shot.[26] Kershaw claimed that the escape was additional proof that Ray had been involved in a conspiracy that had provided him with the outside assistance he would have needed to break out of jail. Kershaw convinced Ray to take a polygraph test as part of an interview with Playboy. The magazine said that the test results showed "that Ray did, in fact, kill Martin Luther King Jr. and that he did so alone." Ray fired Kershaw after discovering that the attorney had been paid $11,000 by the magazine in exchange for the interview and hired conspiracy theorist Mark Lane to provide him with legal representation.[26]
Later developments[edit]

In 1997, King's son Dexter met with Ray, asking him, "I just want to ask you, for the record, um, did you kill my father?" Ray replied, "No-no I didn't," and King tells Ray that he, along with the King family, believed him; the King family also urged for a new trial for Ray.[27][28][29]Loyd Jowers, a restaurant owner in Memphis, was brought to civil court and sued as being part of a conspiracy to murder Martin Luther King. Jowers was found legally liable, and the King family accepted $100 in restitution, an amount chosen to show that they were not pursuing the case for financial gain.

Dr. William Pepper, a friend of King in the last year of his life, represented Ray in a televised mock trial in an attempt to get him the trial he never had. Pepper later represented the King family in a wrongful death civil trial against Loyd Jowers. The King family has since concluded that Ray did not have anything to do with the murder of Martin Luther King, Jr.[30]
Death[edit]

Ray died in prison at the Lois M. DeBerry Special Needs Facility in Nashville on April 23, 1998, at the age of 70, from complications related to kidney disease and liver failure caused byhepatitis C.[31] Ray was survived by seven siblings. His brother Jerry Ray told CNN that his brother did not want to be buried or have his final resting place in the United States because of "the way the government has treated him." Ray was cremated and his ashes were flown to Ireland, the home of his family's ancestors.[32] Ten years later, Ray's other brother, John Larry Ray, co-authored a book with Lyndon Barsten, titled Truth At Last: The Untold Story Behind James Earl Ray and the Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. revealing what the former author knew about the assassination.[27]
Name mix up[edit]

" Lane’s conduct resulted in public misperception about the assassination of Dr. King and must be condemned"

Andrew and Mitrokhin, The Sword and the Shield - JFK Online
www.jfk-online.com/mitrokhin.html
In 1992, KGB archivist Vasili Mitrokhin defected to the UK with notes and copies of ....The KGB correctly identified the New York lawyer Mark Lane as the most talented of the first wave of conspiracy theorists researching the JFK assassination. According to one report made on him, probably by the New York residency: Mark Lane is well known as a person with close ties to Democratic Party circles in the US. He holds liberal views on a number of current American political problems and has undertaken to conduct his own private investigation of the circumstances surrounding the murder of J. Kennedy."

Mark Lane has been a purveyor or Martin Luther King conspiracy theories too, and he represented King’s killer, James Earl Ray, before the House Select Committee on Assassinations. After investigating Lane’s claims, the Committee chastised him:

Many of the allegations of conspiracy the committee investigated were first raised by Mark Lane, the attorney who represented James Earl Ray at the committee’s public hearings. As has been noted, the facts were often at variance with Lane’s assertions. . . . In many instances, the committee found that Lane was willing to advocate conspiracy theories publicly without having checked the factual basis for them. In other instances, Lane proclaimed conspiracy based on little more than inference and innuendo. Lane’s conduct resulted in public misperception about the assassination of Dr. King and must be condemned. (House Select Committee Report, Page 424, footnote 16)

Mark Lane (author) - Wikipedia Mark Lane wrote Murder In Memphis with Dick Gregory (previously titled Code Name Zorro, after the Central Intelligence Agency's name for King) about the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., in which he alleged a conspiracy and government coverup. Lane represented James Earl Ray, King's alleged assassin, before the House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA) inquiry in 1978. The HSCA said of Lane in its report, "Many of the allegations of conspiracy that the committee investigated were first raised by Mark Lane

According to former KGB officer Vasili Mitrokhin in his 1999 book The Sword and the Shield, the KGB helped finance Lane's research on Rush to Judgement without the author's knowledge. The Soviet agency allegedly use an intermediary—a friend of Lane who was a KGB contact—to provide Lane with $2000 for research and travel in 1964.Mark Lane called the allegation "an outright lie" and wrote, "Neither the KGB nor any person or organization associated with it ever made any contribution to my work." However, Rush to Judgement was never published in any of the countries behind the Iron Curtain before 1990.[citation needed]

James Earl Ray didn't kill Martin Luther King, said Dexter King
realhistoryarchives.blogspot.com/.../james-earl-ray-didnt-kill-martin-luth... Apr 4, 2008 On today, the sad anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King's assassination, I want to share a piece about the King assassination I wrote back in 1997. Ray died before he could ever get a real trial (the first one as a sham, as is discussed at length in most of the books on the case). But the King family, bless all their souls, pressed a civil case against Loyd Jowers, who confessed that he had paid someone else to shoot MLK. A jury who would later hear the suit assigned Jowers some measure of guilt but assigned a greater burden to the government and to "persons unknown." In other words, a jury in a trial found James Earl Ray not guilty, and found there was a conspiracy that has not been fully exposed